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Educational crafts offers many wonderful opportunities to playfully engage children's imaginations. Preschool crafts, educational and entertaining by design, can be very rewarding to do with your child ... and the crafts you'll find here are free and easy to do!

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Shape Painting

Materials

  • Liquid tempera paint(s)
  • Shallow container(s)
  • Paper cups, small jars, snap-together building blocks, sponges, and other objects in different geometric shapes
  • Several sheets of paper

Instructions

  1. Pour liquid tempera paint into a shallow container. If you like, use more than one colour, using one container for each colour.
  2. Collect assorted objects in basic geometric shapes.
  3. Help your grandchild dip the objects into the paint, then press them onto the paper.
  4. You may wish to use one sheet of paper for each shape, or use one sheet of paper for all the shapes, each a different colour.
  5. If possible, use each object in more than one way. For example, a cup may leave a faint outline of a circle if pressed onto the paper upside down, but its base may leave a solid circle.
  6. A snap-together block will leave either a row of small circles or a larger square or rectangle, depending on which side is pressed on the paper.

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